If you love something, let it go. B. J. Novak More Quotes by B. J. Novak More Quotes From B. J. Novak I feel like there's a voice in my head, always, telling me every idea is brilliant, and another telling me every idea is the worst. And they argue in my head until somebody wins, until I solicit an audience to be, like, 'Will you help me figure this out? Is this the best or the worst idea?' And they tell me! B. J. Novak feel best me you I remember my mum coming into my bedroom when I was lying awake one night, and she asked what I was thinking of... And I was telling her about the inventions I would invent, and she said, 'Can't you ever just think stupid thoughts?' B. J. Novak thoughts you stupid night I think I am very proud of being associated with quality things. So if I were massively famous for doing massively beloved things, yeah, that sounds great. B. J. Novak i-am great quality proud It feels as though a very disproportionate number of main characters are writers, because that's what the writer knows. Fair enough. But nothing bothers me more in a movie than an actor playing a writer, and you just know he's not a writer. Writers recognize other writers. Ethan Hawke is too hot to be a writer. B. J. Novak nothing me you hot My goal is not to make popular things. My goal is to make the things I love as popular as I can make them. B. J. Novak make things i-can love If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm on the other side of the argument. 'Ulysses' would be better if it seduced me. But I probably have the minority point of view. B. J. Novak me respect work love I like jeans, but I think in 100 years it's going to be crazy when we look back at the fact that everyone, every day for about 60 years straight, wore stiff blue pants as their default. Why? B. J. Novak day look crazy blue I have one really nice watch. It's a white-face, stainless-steel Rolex Daytona. I wear it a lot. I got that in the middle of 'The Office.' All the guys in the writers' room were like, 'Let's all get a nice watch.' We were too busy to upgrade our lives in a big way, but we thought this was a nice symbolic gesture. B. J. Novak thought nice busy way I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy of a profession. My dad saved me all that time by making me think, 'Oh, anyone can be a writer. It's like being a firefighter or a lawyer.' B. J. Novak me lawyer courage time If I could go to dinner with one person, alive or dead, I think I would choose alive. B. J. Novak dead choose think dinner
